Dr Anup Prakash Tathod

Research Interest

• CO₂ to chemicals
• Petrochemical production from conventional and non-conventional feed-stocks
• Design and synthesis of multifunctional heterogeneous catalysts,
• Crystal-face selective catalysis.
• Support-metal interaction
• Mixed oxides, solid acid, solid base

Work Experience

Awards and Honours

• The Grand Technion Energy Program (GTEP) fellowship for post-doctoral fellows in Energy for the year 2017-2018, Israel

Patents

• Production of sugar alcohols, xylitol and arabitol using bimetallic supported metal catalysts
  Anup Tathod, Paresh Dhepe, IN 0017/DEL/2014

Selected Publications

• Hybrid Nanocomposite Comprising Mg–Al Hydrotalcite Nanocrystals on ZSM-5 Zeolite for Production of Renewable Fuel Additives from Furfural
  Anup Tathod*, Bhavna Saini, Selvamani Arumugam and Nagabhatla Viswanadham
  ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2023, DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.2c05349
• Renewable p-Xylene Production by Catalytic Conversion of Crude Bioglycerol (GTA-pX Process)
  Vijendra Singh, Selvamani Arumugam*, Mahesh Kumar, Anup Prakash Tathod, and Nagabhatla Viswanadham*
  Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2023, 62, 1788-1796
• CeO2–TiO2 Nanoparticle-Grafted gC3N4 Sheets as an Efficient Catalyst for the Oxidation of Cyclohexane to KA oil
  Selvamani Arumugam*, Vijendra Singh, Anup Prakash Tathod, Santhanaraj Daniel, and Nagabhatla Viswanadham*
  Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2023, 61, 18371-18381
• Nickel nano-particles confined in ZSM-5 framework as an efficient catalystfor selective hydrodeoxygenation of lignin-derived monomers
  Bhavna Saini, Anup Tathod*, Jitendra Diwakar, Selvamani Arumugam and Nagabhatla Viswanadham *
  Biomass and Bioenergy, 2022, 157, 106350
• Sustainable Upgrade of Bioderived Glycerol to Solketal through Acetalization over Metal-Free Mordenite Catalysts
  Bhavna Saini, Anup Tathod*, Sandeep Saxena, Selvamani Arumugam and Nagabhatla Viswanadham*
  ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng, 2022, 10, 1172- 1181
• Conversion of bio-derived crude glycerol into renewable high-octane gasoline-stock
  Vijendra Singh,   Selvamani Arumugam,   Anup Prakash Tathod and  Viswanadham Nagabhatla*
  Chemical Communications, 2022, 58, 4873-4876
• Efficient Bifunctional Catalysts for Enhanced Carbon Conversions and Alky-Aromatics Production in Crude Bio-glycerol Methanol Processes
  Vijendra Singh,   Selvamani Arumugam,   Anup Prakash Tathod and  Viswanadham Nagabhatla*
  ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng, 2022, 10, 5323-5332
• Mesoporous titanium-aluminosilicate as an efficient catalyst for selective oxidation of cyclohexene at mild reaction conditions
  Jitendra Diwakar, Selvamani Arumugam, Bhavna Saini, Anup Prakash Tathod, Nagabhatla Viswanadham*
  Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2022, 55, 257-265
• Mediating interaction strength between nickel and zirconia using a mixed oxide nanosheets interlayer for methane dry reforming
  Anup Tathod, Naseem Hayek, Dina Shpasser, David Simakov and Oz M. Gazit
  Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2019, 249,106-115
• Fundamental Insights into the Nucleation and Growth of Mg-Al Layered Double Hydroxides Nanoparticles at Low Temperature
  Anup Tathod, Oz Gazit
  Crystal Growth & Design, 2016, 16 (12), 6709–6713
• Efficient method for the conversion of agricultural waste into sugar alcohols over supported bimetallic catalyst
  Anup Tathod, Paresh Dhepe
  Bioresour. Technol., 2015, 178, 36-44
• Towards efficient synthesis of sugar alcohols from mono- and poly-saccharides: role of metals, supports & promoters
  Anup Tathod, Paresh Dhepe
  Green Chem., 2014, 16, 4944-4954
• Solid base supported metal catalysts for the oxidation and hydrogenation of sugars
  Anup Tathod, Tanushree Kane, E.S. Sanil, Paresh L. Dhepe
  J. Mol. Catal. A: Chem., 2014, 388–389, 90–99